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...curiosity." In his first year in office, he cut the university system's proposed budget by 17%. After campus disorders died down, however, Reagan cooled off as well. By the time he left office, the state's higher-education budget had actually increased by 100%. Some educators contend that the quality of the state university system declined somewhat during the Rea gan years. But Brown wants to hold the campuses to "a more austere standard of living" that university officials fear may jeopardize the system. Says McHenry: "In retrospect, a lot of people think that Reagan wasn...
...Kennedy was struck from the rear, does his body move sharply back? The commission's experts explain Connally's delayed reaction (at most, 1.5 seconds) as a quite plausible nervous-system occurrence. He also clings to his hat, despite a wrist wound; the experts contend that his muscles tightened...
...urged federal help. Hauge was a master of the elbow squeeze, the whispered message-first to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, then to Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve. It was an intense warning, but applied under the full protocols of the court: ideas contend...
...conjunction of a sleazy "property" and the most curious and enigmatic criminal case of recent years had to excite some schlockmeister, and so we have El Cheapo Production's version of the book to contend with. The picture, featuring Judith-Marie Bergan, started out aiming for the coveted X rating, essential to success in the pornfields, then raised its sights. Its more graphically depicted sexual grapplings went into the trim barrel, an R rating was obtained, and it is no longer necessary to sneak off to some cinematic red-light district to see the film...
...wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike flag of Mexican unions-are encamped with their dogs, turkeys and barefoot children, barring entrance to all. Though they are owed four months of back pay, they contend that they are really there to protect their flag...